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In e-learning when are two sensory modes better than one? Why not three? When...
Fig.1. Audio without books – no better than the books on their own. Research shows that what works is when the two work together. Too many companies are currently touting software that can take a 45...
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The power to remember and the need to forget
Fig 1. Your life? Remembered or forgotten? Digitally record or better to delete? INTRODUCTION It frustrates me to try to read two complementary books e in two different formats – the first is marketed...
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The memory is the mind process happening in your brain, it can never be the...
Fig. 1. Bill Gates featured in a 1985 copy of a regional computer magazine In the introduction to ‘Total Recall’ Bill Gates wonders when he and Gordon Bell first met. Was in 1983 or 1982. What was the...
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The Gutenberg Galaxy – first thoughts, from the first pages
Fig. 1. The Gutenberg Galaxy – Marshall McLuhan (courtesy of Amazon and a US bookseller) Like visiting a library, having a book as an object in my hand, a singular artifact rather than its substance...
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When reading we need a perspective of what has been and what is coming up.
Before you get stuck, a couple of definitions: Parafoveal = dependent on parts of the retina external to the fovea. The fovea is a small rodless area of the retina that affords acute vision. SACCADE...
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All you need to know about blogging that you can’t be bothered to research...
Fig. 1. Passion at work: Blogging practices of knowledge workers (2009) by Lilia Efimova Doctoral thesis published by Novay. I’ve come to this thesis for a number of reasons: I’ve been blogging since...
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Could blogging be seen as a scholarly activity?
This are me thoughts from reading: An empirically grounded framework to guide blogging for digital scholarship Heap & Minocha (2012), Fig.1. Digital Scholarship with a nod to Martin Weller‘s book...
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To teach is to nurture and the best metaphor for the mind is to see it as a...
Fig. 1. My own vision of education as nurturing – like growing plants in a garden ‘Her metaphor for the brain is that of a garden, that’s full of the most interesting, different things that have to...
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Research
I’ll be through this in 24 hours. 48 if I keep pausing to add notes to the highlights, longer if I download and read any references … and longer still if I apply it directly to the first tutor marked...
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What’s going on in there? This apparently!
New Scientist 9 February 2013 Mind Maths by Colin Barras
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Teenagers and technology
Fig.1. Letters from Iwa Jima. Clint Eastwood directed Movie. In one of those bizarre, magic ways the brain works, last nigmt I watched the Clint Eastwood film ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’ then stayed up...
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Reading ‘Red Nile: a biography of the world’s greatest river’– a gem
At times you laugh out loud, always informative, great stories, full of well-known facts with a twist, as well as a myriad of gems. The kind of book I would have bought and sent to people for the...
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How I read has changed, though my curiosity hasn’t dimmed, rather it has been...
Fig.1 pp 116-117 of Lawrence Lessig’s book ‘Remix’ Despite the rhetoric of the content industry, the most valuable contribution to our economy comes from connectivity, not content’. Lawrence Lessig...
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Web Networks – from the micro to the macro
We are each unique – our brains make us so. At the microlevel the network in our heads is then tickled out into the the Web in, at first. the simplest of ways. Our first post, our first comment is...
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